FoxNews.com Columnist Attacks Bob Costas For Correctly Drawing Connection Between Guns And Murder

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18. In the case of Belcher and most families

the family knows who owns a gun and if there are domestic tensions. Under my new gun law proposal, Belcher's family, mother-in-law, etc, could have alerted the police and Belcher's access to lethal firearms could have been suspended for a temporary "cool down" period while maintaining his right to access to a non-lethal, legally compliant "firearm." But, I agree, the family would have had to alert police. However, if once alerted, there needs to be laws police can use help avoid impulsive tragedies related to firearms.

Also there is a difference in arguing with a window and arguing with another person. It's the difference between directing your anger at an inanimate object without any known context or relation to anyone else and expressing anger in context or relation to an interaction with someone. I think police are smart enough to judge the difference most of the time.